All .NET languages work in XNA on Windows, but not all .NET languages work in XNA on Xbox 360 because XNA on Xbox 360 uses a subset of called the .NET Compact Framework. According to this answer, the .NET Compact Framework lacks the libraries needed to run C++/CLI, and it also lacks the Reflection.Emit library needed to run DLR languages such as IronPython. Besides, any non-trivial C++ program ported from another platform will end up using unsafe features because the syntax for standard C++ differs from the syntax for the safe subset of C++/CLI (Wikipedia; MSDN), and XNA on Xbox 360 will not load an assembly that uses unsafe features.

I was going by claims posted by tlhIngan and edwdig. Are you referring to Xbox Live Indie Games, which requires rewriting the whole game line-by-line in C# (native code and Emit are verboten) and which Microsoft has deprecated anyway according to UnknowingFool and samzenpus?

True, FTP and NFS are open alternatives to Server Message Block to an extent. But what's the open alternative to Super Mario Bros. and Super Monkey Ball?

Having no cell phone would require far more geographic knowledge of where the pay phones are in a given part of town, in case one needs a ride home after the city buses stop running for the night or for the weekend.

Anecdote != scientific survey, I admit. Nor is entering windows 8 start screen distracting scientific. But I know I get more distracted with Windows 8's Start screen or Android's launcher than with Windows 7's Start menu or Xfce 4 Panel's application menu. My aunt's PC shipped with Windows 8, and until I got Classic Shell installed, I kept losing my train of thought when it came time to launch an application in the same way that I had been losing my train of thought in Android. Full screen is not always superior, or we'd still be using DOS task switchers.

Say an IE user behind a caching proxy visits a page. The proxy passes the User-agent to the web server, and the web server returns a temporary redirect to the page with IE instructions. Then the proxy caches the fact that the redirect was to the IE page, and the next user comes in with Chrome or Firefox and gets the cached IE page. All the web server can do at that point is throw "Not using Internet Explorer? See instructions for other web browsers" at the top of the IE instructions and hope that the user is smart enough to know what browser he's using, as opposed to "I'm using the Internet".

And what came out of the Longhorn pipeline in this case was BitLocker in Windows Vista Ultimate. As I understand it, it's a form of drive encryption that relies on the TPM.

So how long until the Surface Pro or an equivalent tablet becomes price-competitive with the iPad or Surface RT?

And another way to lose Windows RT Certification is allowing the end user to disable Secure Boot.

On iOS, anybody with a game and $1250 can get it ported and published. How hard is it to get a game published on a Nintendo 3DS?

The availability of 4", 7", and 10" tablets whose full screens themselves have different widths breaks that paradigm in favor of "responsive design", which uses CSS media queries to switch among several layouts.

Even so, consoles still have the advantage of being bundled with a gamepad and traditionally being connected to a larger monitor.

Most of the time, the URLs in the src= attributes of the first few <script> elements will give it away.

It costs load time, and it costs transmission costs if (on the server side) you have a lot of visitors or (on the client side) your Internet connection is billed by the bit. Hosting jQuery from a CDN is a way for websites to pool these costs.

Only on x86. It's the exact opposite on ARM.

If all people want to do on a PC is e-mail, Facebook, and YouTube, then why did Windows netbooks replace GNU/Linux netbooks so quickly? I guess it might have had something to do with Microsoft Office or games.